Category: Post-Graduate Fellowships

If you plan to apply for post-graduate public interest fellowships (or are curious to learn more), we encourage you to attend this important information session, featuring Susan Butler Plum, Director of the Skadden Fellowship. Ms. Plum will provide invaluable insight to help candidates select appropriate host agencies and develop successful proposals.

The Fellowship is a two-year, post-graduate position sponsored by Georgetown Law and Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. The Fellow will represent noncitizen adults and children seeking political asylum and other relief in Immigration Court removal proceedings. The Fellowship is an excellent opportunity to develop hands-on litigation skills and build contacts within immigration reform and civil rights communities on the local and national levels, while serving low-income immigrants with compelling needs. The Fellow will be an employee of the Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston in Houston, TX. The fellowship is open to Georgetown JD students graduating in 2015.
Application deadline – Thursday, March 5 at 5:00pm.

The Barker Fellowship in Animal Law at the Humane Society of the United States, DC
Funded by a generous donation by the Bob Barker Foundation, the fellowship offers an opportunity to work in the HSUS Animal Protection Litigation Section. The application deadline is February 25, 2015. More info available on Symplicity - job posting #35798

The Stabile Fellowship in the Regulation of Personal-Care and Related Consumer Products at the Environmental Working Group, DC
Work on cutting edge issues in the regulation of personal-care products, related consumer products, and toxic chemicals, as well as a wide array of in-house legal issues such as nonprofit-tax and employment law. The application deadline is March 4, 2015.
More info available on Symplicity - job posting # 35797

Eligible candidates for both fellowships are Georgetown JD students graduating in 2015 and recent JD graduates completing a clerkship in 2015 that was entered into immediately upon graduation.

This is a reminder that the deadline to apply for the Gideon’s Promise Fellowship is next Monday, October 20, 2014. Recipients of the Gideon’s Promise Fellowship are placed with host public defender offices for a one-year period, converting to permanent positions with their host offices within or at the conclusion of their fellowship term. Georgetown Law will sponsor one 2015 JD graduate to become a Gideon’s Promise Fellow. For more information about this Fellowship program click above.

Join Jill Morrison, the Executive Director of the WLPPF for tips and advice on the fellowship application process. The application deadline is Friday, October 17, 2014. Check the website for detailed information.

Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC), the country’s first fellowship program dedicated to training immigration lawyers is about the launch the application cycle for the 2015 – 2017 program. IJC will fund 25 new grads to serve as fellows with NY immigration agencies. HRI and OPICS are hosting an information session with the IJC executive director on Thursday, 10/2 from 2:45pm – 3:45pm in Room 358, Williams Law Library.

More information on the fellowship is available at www.justicecorp.org The application period opens on 10/15 and closes on 11/15.

Georgetown Law is pleased to announce that it has joined the Law School Partnership Project, a joint venture between Gideon’s Promise, law schools, and public defender offices. Through the Partnership, selected students from participating law schools are placed with host public defender offices for one-year fellowships, converting to permanent positions with their host offices within or at the conclusion of their fellowship term.

Georgetown will sponsor one 2015 JD graduate to become a Gideon’s Promise Fellow.